Local official and polluter accountability in China’s environmental inspections ABSTRACT Poor environmental practices can lead to high levels of ambient pollution that damage human health and cause premature death. Even if environmental regulations are well designed, incomplete implementation at the local level carries high social costs. Although widely documented, solutions to inadequate enforcement have not…

Algorithmic Fairness in Sequential Decision Making ABSTRACT Machine learning algorithms have been used on a wide range of applications, and there are growing concerns about potential biases of those algorithms. While many solutions have been proposed for addressing biases in predictions from an algorithm, there is still a gap in translating predictions to a justified…